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Wednesday: Learning

MSHS group in enviro work

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Senior High School Environmental Club has partnered with Tree-Plenish to help make its community more sustainable. It intends to plant 240 saplings on May 13 to offset its school’s energy consumption from the past academic year. Visit ...

‘The Home Wind’ subject of Notable Book Club event

MARQUETTE — Maybe people of all ages can enjoy a book written for younger readers. A book geared toward middle-grade readers is the subject of the Feb. 9 U.P. Notable Book Club event. “The Home Wind,” by L’Anse author, columnist and publisher Terri Lynn Martin, will be discussed ...

Westwood junior accepted into flight academy

K.I. SAWYER — Brad Luce definitely is “aiming high” is the literal sense. However, he also has lofty career goals. Luce, a Westwood High School junior and the son of Trey and Susan Luce, has been selected for the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Aim High Flight Academy, an aviation ...

Heat detector finds explosive stars in cosmic game of ‘I spy’

MARQUETTE — A new way of exploring the universe has been under our noses for years. Scientists are only now discovering this by looking at the sky from a different perspective. A recent study shows how we can use existing technology to better understand distant objects with strange, ...

Drum circle to meet

MARQUETTE — The Marquette Community Drum Circle will be meeting to share the beat at 2 p.m. Thursday at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 555 Riverside Road, Marquette. Please use the lower level entrance, which faces M-28. No drumming experience is necessary- all skill levels are welcome! ...

He’s not leaving

MARQUETTE — As Russian forces continue with heavy artillery shelling and frequent missile strikes that have resulted in thousands of deaths and extensive destruction in Ukraine, Northern Michigan University alumnus Matt Maki has no plans to leave the country he has called home for the past ...